I wanted to ask for ways to test whether a path exists. I usually use os.path.exists(), which does a stat call on the path and returns True if it succeeds, or False if it fails (catches os.error). But stat calls don't fail only when a path doesn't exist. I see that, at least on Windows, the instance of the exception has an attribute 'errno' set to 2 when it fails because the path doesn't exist. Is it a portable solution to rely on this (haven't tried it on Linux)? Are there other ways of testing whether a path exists?
Thanks, Sebastian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
